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I’m reading Blaise Pascal’s Pensées, long considered a classic of Christian apologetics. Pensées (“Thoughts”) is a collection of fragmentary notes Pascal had been putting together in preparation for a systematic book of apologetics he did not live long enough to…
The definitions of love are too numerous to count. Here is one that I find incredibly powerful: “To love is to will the good of another.” — St. Thomas Aquinas Simple on the surface but rich with meaning, it’s hard…
Fancies Versus Fads is a 1923 collection of 30 previously published essays by G.K. Chesterton, covering a wide range of topics including modernity, feminism, divorce, poetry, drama, literature, education, progressivism, and prohibition. Here Chesterton is at his wittiest, most penetrating,…
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Originally…
“And now, here is a message from the Lord to Jacob, his creature, to the Israel he fashioned: Do not be afraid, I have bought thee for myself, and given thee the name thou bearest: thou belongest to me. Pass…